Legal Opinion
Abdallah v. Bain Capital, LLC
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 3, 2014No. 13-2008PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Murielle Abdallah and the members of the class that she seeks to represent worked in a luggage factory in Hénin-Beaumont, France. The factory was owned by Samsonite, which was in turn controlled by an investment group led by Bain Capital, LLC. In 2005, Samsonite sold the factory to a thinly-capitalized third party, HB Group. In early 2007, a French court ordered the liquidation of the factory, costing Abdallah and her coworkers their jobs. HB Group had no resources with which to pay Abdallah and her coworkers the post-termination benefits to which they were…
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